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Robin C
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Grad student in the Fredricks lab at U of Washington 🐶🧬 studying the role of gut microbes & bile acids in stem cell transplant recovery 👩🏼‍🔬 she/her 🏳️‍🌈
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Microbiologists! Check out the the🧵below and then sign up for #BinningSingletons @ #ASMicrobe 2025 in LA! 🧪
binningsingletons.com/singleton/bi...
May 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Hi bluesky 👋 I’m Robin, a PhD candidate at U of Washington/Fred Hutch Cancer Center!

I use multi -omics analyses to study how gut microbial communities can impact health via bile acid metabolism 🔬

When I’m not blowing through boxes of pipette tips you can probably find me exploring outdoors 🤩🏔️
April 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Federal funding of biomedical research has been a remarkably successful partnership, with benefits that are so intertwined in our daily lives that they can be easy to take for granted.

So what will we lose if the U.S. continues to defund research?

theconversation.com/cuts-to-scie...
Cuts to science research funding cut American lives short − federal support is essential for medical breakthroughs
The National Institutes of Health has been integral to scientific progress in treating countless human diseases. Without its support, patients will ultimately pay the price.
theconversation.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Trying to build my footprint on this new site, so here's my first ever 1st author paper! Very in the weeds of metaproteomics, but I think it has some good lessons for getting the most out of your data.

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Optimizing metaproteomics database construction: lessons from a study of the vaginal microbiome | mSystems
Metaproteomic analysis can provide valuable insights into the functions of microbial and cellular communities by identifying a broad, untargeted set of proteins. The databases used in the analysis of ...
journals.asm.org
February 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Slowly and steadily migrating over from X 🐢🙂‍↕️
April 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM